ppd-xerox-colorqube8700-8900

LOW
maintainer dankles 1 votes scanned 2026-11-01 00:21:48.120785
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Why flagged

The source is a driver executable from Xerox's official support domain, which is plausibly the project's own distribution channel; extracting PPD files for printer configuration is normal and non-executable, so the worst case of a swapped source is limited to configuration tampering, not code execution.

Triggered rules

Low AI review downgraded a static finding llm_review

The static rules flagged this MEDIUM, but an AI model (qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-07-25) reviewed the full PKGBUILD and judged it LOW (confidence 95%): The source is a driver executable from Xerox's official support domain, which is plausibly the project's own distribution channel; extracting PPD files for printer configuration is normal and non-executable, so the worst case of a swapped source is limited to configuration tampering, not code execution.

1 higher static finding superseded - not the current verdict (shown for transparency)
Medium source=() URL on a non-standard host source_untrusted_domain

One or more source=() URLs point to a host outside the trusted allowlist (github.com, gitlab.com, codeberg.org, pypi.org, …).

  • PKGBUILD:12 source=("http://download.support.xerox.com/pub/drivers/CQ8700/drivers/win7x64/en_GB/CQ8700-8900_PPD_en.exe"

PKGBUILD

1 offending line(s) highlighted
1# Maintainer: Daniel Anderson <dankles@freeslacker.com>
2
3pkgname="ppd-xerox-colorqube8700-8900"
4pkgver="5.360.0.0"
5pkgrel="1"
6pkgdesc="Printer driver for Xerox ColorQube 8700/8900"
7arch=("any")
8url="http://www.support.xerox.com/support/colorqube-8900/downloads/enus.html"
9license=("custom")
10makedepends=("unrar")
11depends=("cups")
12source=("http://download.support.xerox.com/pub/drivers/CQ8700/drivers/win7x64/en_GB/CQ8700-8900_PPD_en.exe"
13 "LICENSE")
14sha256sums=("3409d49fea39b770d232ed5200639a121ea32a566095176fc4ff4c98869c0b27"
15 "af5852333e592a9782140397763e15cd1959f7248e74f6d3aa4c0f48120c2a6e")
16
17prepare() {
18 unrar x CQ8700-8900_PPD_en.exe
19}
20
21package() {
22 install -Dpm0644 "${srcdir}/LICENSE" "${pkgdir}/usr/share/licenses/${pkgname}/LICENSE"
23 install -Dpm0644 "${srcdir}/XeroxColorQube8700S.ppd" "${pkgdir}/usr/share/ppd/cupsfilters/XeroxColorQube8700S.ppd"
24 install -Dpm0644 "${srcdir}/XeroxColorQube8700X.ppd" "${pkgdir}/usr/share/ppd/cupsfilters/XeroxColorQube8700X.ppd"
25 install -Dpm0644 "${srcdir}/XeroxColorQube8700XF.ppd" "${pkgdir}/usr/share/ppd/cupsfilters/XeroxColorQube8700XF.ppd"
26 install -Dpm0644 "${srcdir}/XeroxColorQube8900S.ppd" "${pkgdir}/usr/share/ppd/cupsfilters/XeroxColorQube8900S.ppd"
27 install -Dpm0644 "${srcdir}/XeroxColorQube8900X.ppd" "${pkgdir}/usr/share/ppd/cupsfilters/XeroxColorQube8900X.ppd"
28}
29
30

Scan history

Scanned at (UTC)SeverityRules
2026-11-01 00:21:48 Low 2
2026-10-31 00:07:41 Low 2
2026-10-30 00:29:30 Low 2
2026-10-29 00:13:55 Low 2
2026-10-28 00:06:54 Low 2
2026-10-27 00:23:28 Low 2
2026-10-26 00:12:40 Low 2
2026-10-25 00:20:48 Low 2
2026-10-24 00:14:55 Low 2
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2026-10-19 00:03:55 Low 2
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2026-10-16 00:12:47 Low 2
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